X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=60ec526648cc83a812f4f9f228755cb38fb68d8f;hb=04e3b0b3c1162f54143e467d6f3a028952aa6e77;hp=6876ada5213a543de9c81143d6ff8ae3d324b247;hpb=eedbc7f436664033745321c93f2f89074e3568fd;p=simgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6876ada5..60ec5266 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,77 @@ +New in 0.3.7-pre1 +* September 10, 2004 + +* Add support for parsing xml from an in memory buffer, not just a file. +* Don't reduce visibility for a "clear" cloud layer. +* Add support for audio orientation (direction and cone) for internal + view and tower view. + + +New in 0.3.6 +* July 29, 2004 + +* Better MinGW support +* A bit better handling of OpenAL under Cygwin +* Switched audio system from plib's "sl/sm" to OpenAL. +* Add support for scaling an object based on distance. The scaling + factor is determined by a lookup table based on distance. +* Add a "flash" animation type. +* Fix cloud positioning/animation bugs. +* Fix an off-by-one error in props_io.cxx +* Clip audio gain (volume) to 1.0 + + +New in 0.3.5 +* March 26, 2004 + +* Added Andy's nasal interpreter for small built in scripting tasks. + Nasal integrates nicely with FlightGear's property system. +* Added new (much simpler) metar parsing code (removed older more + complex code.) +* Support VASI/PAPI lights correctly. +* Fixes to cloud animation. +* Updates to sky dome coloring as well as sun/moon coloring. +* Vary environment lighting with visibility (subtlely.) +* Support control of alpha test in model animation. +* Complete rewrite of the event manager. +* Updates to low level socket code to make it more flexible. +* Win32 serial port communication fixes. +* sg_geodesy rewritten to be more accurate and robust and symmetric. + + +New in 0.3.4 +* October 22, 2003 + +* Removed Metakit, FlightGear no longer uses it. +* Removed all glut dependencies from SimGear. +* Moved FGEventMgr and FGSubsystemMgr over to SimGear. +* Some more incremental work on 3D clouds. +* Added some "fastmath" functions. +* Some lighting tweaks and fixes (especially for taxiways.) +* Added support for "blend" and "scale" and "texture" animations. +* Added support for animating rotations around an arbitrary axis (so the + aircraft designer isn't forced to figure out animations as a combination + of rotations around X, Y, and X axes. +* Updates to sky dome modeling and make cloud layers follow the curve + of the earth (sort of.) +* Updates to sky dome, cloud, and sunrise/sunset color and lighting + effects to make them more realistic and lifelike. +* Better support for detecting and using OpenGL extensions at run time. +* Add support for win32-pthreads in MSVC.NET +* Various MSVC fixes. +* Various Solaris fixes. +* Various cygwin/mingwin fixes. +* Various Mac OS X fixes. +* Various Irix fixes. + + +New in 0.3.3 +* June 3, 2003 + +* Fix a compile problem for cygwin +* Updated/tweaked doxygen documentation in several areas + + New in 0.3.2 * June 2, 2003